To be the man, you’ve got to beat the man. | | | | Roy Halladay was one of the best pitchers of his generation.
(Nick Laham/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “To be the man, you’ve got to beat the man.”
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| | rantnrave:// ROY HALLADAY wasn't a mega-star, despite a baseball card that indicated he should be. He was one of two pitchers ever to throw a postseason no-hitter. DON LARSEN is great company to keep. Became the 20th ever to throw a perfect game. He was also a craftsman who rebuilt his career from the ground up. A 10.64 ERA in your third major league season usually ends careers. Halladay went down to the minors, then returned to post a 2.98 ERA over his next 11 years. He was a bright light for a decade's worth of mediocre BLUE JAYS teams. He made up one of the best rotations in memory with the PHILLIES. He was anachronistic, throwing complete games by the bundle when pitchers were rarely allowed to go that deep into games -- he led the league seven times. A bulldog on the mound, with a reputation as one of baseball's best people off it. Unfortunately, he'll go into the HALL OF FAME posthumously. He died Tuesday in a plane crash off the coast of FLORIDA. He was 40. A tragic end for one of the best pitchers of his generation. RIP DOC... Could a major college basketball coach get into NCAA trouble because he forgot to wish his friend happy birthday? JOSH PASTNER and GEORGIA TECH are in the spotlight after the coach's ex-friend went public with allegations he gave Tech players illegal benefits. Their friendship broke down, in part, because Pastner didn't call RON BELL on his birthday. The illegal benefits: shoes, petty cash, money for groceries, and a plane ticket. Does that seem like a lot? Should we be outraged that college athletes got a little extra to supplant their scholarships or chuckle at the circumstances? Only in college sports... RIP FRANK LIBERTO. He helped bring nachos to stadiums across the country. Even at a time when gourmet food, ballpark sushi and all-you-can-eat have come to stadiums, nachos hold up as a strong choice... LEBRON vs. JORDAN 1,072 games in... A bad day at the office. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Why is baseball's best pitcher also the hardest worker in the game? Because his dad taught him that's how things are done. Because Roy Halladay knows what it's like to fail-and doesn't like the feeling one bit. And because, after 12 seasons, he's finally pitching for a contender. This year, October could be the height of the Halladay season. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The ‘Nature Boy’ is one man in a long, complex history for professional wrestling. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Nothing brings Texas communities together like football and oversized corsages. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| One of the most recognizable faces in NASCAR, Danica Patrick now faces the end of her racing career. The wins weren't numerous, but her impact was impossible to ignore, as even her rivals will admit. | | |
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 | Victory Journal |
| In conversation with sociologist, activist and legend Dr. Harry Edwards. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Ron Bell says the Yellow Jackets' second-year coach knew about extra benefits given to players. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| With new helmet innovations, science is trying to save football, but can the game ever slow down enough to be truly safe? | | |
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 | WBUR |
| We first met Jose Reza, an undocumented student-athlete, in 2016 as he was beginning his first year at Allen Community College in Kansas. One year later, Jose is still fighting for his education. | | |
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 | Black Flag |
| It’s hard to explain how experiencing NASCAR’s infield can completely change a person’s understanding the sport. The garage and pit road transform from areas that were once shown in passing by television broadcasts and squinted at through binoculars, to privates window into the inner workings of racing. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The 16-year-old Canadian basketball superstar wants to change what it means to "jump like a girl." | | |
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 | The Hardball Times |
| On June 2, 1959, some three months prior to the final at-bat of his major league career, Senators shortstop Ron Samford drew his 156-pound body to the right-hand batter's box at Cleveland Stadium and drilled an inside pitch from Bud Podbielan into the lower left field deck to put Washington up, 3-2, in the top of the tenth inning of its game against the Indians. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| A new 30 for 30 focuses on the sex, drugs, and pro wrestling life of the Nature Boy and finds a figure who has been living beyond reality. But it’s still real to him, damnit. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Italian retires with nothing left to prove, having achieved that highest form of football recognition - the stage at which a footballer’s name becomes synonymous with their position. The ‘Pirlo role’ is understood worldwide. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| After a year of searching, we didn't our find our new Goose Gossage. But we did get a glimpse of what one might look like in baseball's just-concluded postseason. This spring, we introduced a new pitching statistic called the goose egg -- named in honor of Gossage, the Hall-of-Fame reliever, who had a record 82 goose eggs in 1975. | | |
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| Sports Illustrated |
| Blake Griffin’s high-wire act made him famous, but left him unfulfilled. With the days of Lob City over, the Clippers' star is trying to build something new in L.A.--one brick at a time. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| In traditional competitive sports, the question of what makes a hall of famer, while fodder for heated arguments, is relatively straightforward. While there is always context that can be added, who the best players are is a largely statistical matter. In professional wrestling, it's completely different. What are the criteria? | | |
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 | Medium |
| Part III of the US Soccer Federation Bylaws, Councils, and specifically Subpart A, Bylaw 302, in an opaque and archaic way, disguises the voters behind the mask of the Credentialing Committee and other Councils and Committees without actually identifying the “delegates” in charge of making this vital determination for the future direction of American Soccer. Yeah, the stakes are high. | | |
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 | Pacific Standard |
| Video gamers have discovered a new and scary loophole in the laws of ownership--and the upshot is that a lot of your digital property might not technically be yours. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| For one thing, it's un-American. | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Mr. Rogin joined the fledgling "SI" in 1955 and was quickly made a reporter. He wrote profiles of boxers, bird watchers, surfers, shortstops and motorcycle daredevils before shifting to the editing track. Fiction he wrote on the side--to mostly rapturous praise: In 1972, he won an Academy Award for literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. | | |
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